Mobile devices like smartphones together with social networks enable people to generate, share, and consume enormous amounts of media content. Common search operations, for example searching for a music clip based on artist name and song title on video platforms such as YouTube, can be achieved both based on potentially shallow humangenerated metadata, or based on more profound content analysis...

There are many challenges in devising solutions for online content processing of live networked multimedia sessions. These include content analysis under uncertainty (evidence of content are missed or hallucinated), the computational complexity of feature extraction and object recognition, and the massive amount of data to be analyzed under real-time requirements. In this paper we focus on midd...

Citizen sensing: Humans as citizens on the ubiquitous Web, acting as sensors and sharing their observations and views using mobile devices and Web 2.0 Services. Citizen-sensor network: An interconnected network of people who actively observe, report, collect, analyze, and disseminate information via text, links to other resources, and various media including audio, images and videos. Social med...

Since its development, YouTube, the world’s third most popular online destination, has transformed from a video-sharing site into a job opportunity for content creators in both new and mainstream media. Based on content analysis, the study examined how three prominent YouTubers have created a successful personal brand. Analysis revealed the common characteristics that these online celebrities s...

BACKGROUND Media reporting of suicide has repeatedly been shown to trigger suicidal behaviour. Few studies have investigated the associations between specific media content and suicide rates. Even less is known about the possible preventive effects of suicide-related media content. AIMS To test the hypotheses that certain media content is associated with an increase in suicide, suggesting a s...

This study considers framing differences among three types of media outlets on Weibo, China's most popular microblog. The author examines Weibo content for China's state-owned media, China's commercial media, and foreign media on the subject of two of China's ongoing territorial disputes. Using content analysis techniques, this work compares framing styles across the three types of media. Findi...

Published research demonstrates an association between exposure to media sexual content and a variety of sex-related outcomes for adolescents. What is not known is the mechanism through which sexual content produces this "media effect" on adolescent beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. Using the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction, this article uses data from a longitudinal study of adolesc...

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